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Best rose you ever got for free or on sale

10 years ago

Mine was a gift of SdlM. A friend gave it to me back in '82 and it's been moved around, divided, potted up, replanted. Now that plant lives as 3 bushes in my yard and I keep finding rooted pieces to share.

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Brittie - La Porte, TX 9a
10 years ago
People tend to gift me grocery store minis. Hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but...
QuestioningSerenity
10 years ago
My N-Joy Rose. A pitiul looking thing at the store, got it cause no one else was interested in it. Brought it home and gave it love, now it's my beauty :)
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nastarana
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Radio Times. I found three plants pushed into a corner at a nursery. I had never heard of it, or of HMF at that time, but I thought they might be Austen roses, because of the name.
dan_keil_cr Keil
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A friend of mine budded me a Silverado
seil zone 6b MI
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I've been gifted several good roses because people all know I take in orphans but I think my favorite one was Koko Loco. My society president bought it and hated the color so he gave it to me! I think it's beautiful.

For sale finds it would have to be Focal Point that I found in the clearance bin at Lowes. It was a straggly mess covered in spots but I new it was one of Frank Benardella's beauties so I grabbed it for $5 bucks! It was potted up in a fancy pot too! The pot would have cost me more than that on it's own but with the rose too I couldn't pass it upl.
diane_nj 6b/7a
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The late Frank Benardella was a member of our rose society. He would bring roses (some his, some others) to the meetings, sell them for a nominal fee, and donate the sales to the society.

I received Princess of Wales (the white Floribunda) from Garden.com as a gift. It just showed up one day, and I still have it.
seil zone 6b MI
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Yeah, Frank was a great guy and bred really beautiful roses. He is missed a lot.
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a few come to mind. #1. Bought a Tropicana at Kmart for 50 cents in the early 70s, had beautiful fragrant blooms for 30 years before I lost it. #2. bought La Marne at Home Depot about 10 years ago in a two gallon pot for $1. It's always the first to bloom and blooms all summer, never has a problem with disease. Talk about the best $1 that I ever spent! #3. About 7 years ago someone pulled up a white rose by the roots to bring to a plant swap and didn't wrap it in wet newspaper or anything. Didn't know the name, it only had two little canes. I took it at the end of the swap because she was going to throw it away. Drove around all day with that poor rose in the back of a pickup in the hot sun. Put it in water that night and the next day it had perked up. So I planted it. It has been a consistent bloomer, but this year WOW! It has been covered with fragrant blooms all summer! I suspect it might be Iceberg, but haven't seen one that I can compare it to.

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